Staff Heretics has secured the third VCT EMEA slot at VALORANT Champions 2025 as Staff Liquid advances to the Stage 2 Grand Ultimate.
Regardless of being eradicated early within the Playoffs, Heretics has certified for the season-ending event due to its 14 VCT Factors.
Staff Heretics has been among the many top-performing groups within the EMEA VCT circuit, reaching second and third place throughout this 12 months’s Kickoff and Stage 1, respectively.
Though the Spanish organisation has but to assert a global VCT trophy, Heretics have had promising runs on the worldwide VALORANT levels of the previous. The squad completed second at Masters Shanghai 2024 and narrowly misplaced the Champions trophy in the identical 12 months to its Chinese language competitor, EDward Gaming.
Following its victory on the 2025 Esports World Cup, nonetheless, Heretics misplaced each its Group Stage matches at Masters Toronto, leading to its early elimination from the event.
Heading into the ultimate regional showdown of this 12 months’s VCT season, Heretics initially seemed reinvigorated. Heretics was the one EMEA workforce to advance to the Playoffs with an ideal 5-0 match rating. But the workforce’s curse struck once more, as Heretics misplaced two consecutive video games in opposition to BBL Esports (0-2) and NAVI (0-2).
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With the possibility to make Champs with a second or first place Stage 2 end result gone, the Spanish organisation may solely qualify by way of VCT EMEA Factors.
Apparently, Staff Liquid is the one remaining Playoffs contestant that has already earned the minimal of factors required for Champs qualification. Whereas Fnatic was the primary EMEA squad to qualify by way of VCT Factors, it has additionally suffered playoff elimination.
Because of this, Heretics’ destiny was within the fingers of Liquid, who needed to win one collection to safe a spot within the Stage 2 Grand Ultimate and qualify for Champs not by way of factors.
Liquid didn’t disappoint. The darkish horse of EMEA defeated BBL 2-1 in final week’s Higher Bracket Ultimate, granting Heretics one other shot at a global VCT trophy. BBL will subsequent face the winner of GIANTX versus NAVI to struggle for its spot within the Grand Ultimate later immediately, August thirty first.
Heretics followers must wait till VALORANT Champions, going down in Paris from September twelfth till October fifth, to witness their workforce’s subsequent VCT look.
